[gordonhart]

Releasing the weights is an easy and low-cost way for OpenAI to fix this problem.

[tptacek]

According to the thesis of this article, releasing the weights would be approximately the worst thing OpenAI could do for these people.

[gordonhart]

I kind of agree with GP more than the author here. OpenAI got these people hooked and pulling the plug is potentially more harmful than letting them continue to chat with it until they move on naturally (assuming that they eventually will)